RE: SRTM Eurasia

"Curtis L. Olson" <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:05:53 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.games.flightgear.terragear.devel
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Norman Vine writes:
> Curtis L. Olson writes:
> > 
> >  Someday it might be nice
> > to get fancy and do some sort of fitting of the vertical profile based
> > on terrain data.
> 
> Chances are the concepts in this project could help speedup the refitting
> vector data to the terrain elevation data being used.
> 
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/geo*/terraflow/

Now that looks like it would be fun to play with, especially if you
could integrate some sort of climate model to approximate
precipitation amounts, snow cover, snow melt, etc.

Curt.
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